Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 7
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
  • All female board: -3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +4
Overall GiG Score: -1 ?

TRAINING LINK 

Basic skills training and personal development for people in need, in particular from deprived communities, espcially to help people find work
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is completely female

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 28 years

www.traininglink.org.uk

director@traininglink.org.uk

02073835405

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseX
UN SDGs
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£28£50£-21n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/03/22£62£37£25n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/21£37£37£0n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/20£55£49£6n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/19£42£45£-3n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/18£53£56£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£38£55£-17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£72£64£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£94£74£21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£74£73£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£65£71£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£88£94£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£67£81£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£82£87£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09?£74£85£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/07£89£94£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/06£70£90£-20£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05£84£77£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04£91£87£4£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 40 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Camden Giving£11,497
National Lottery Community Fund£8,870
Charles Hayward Foundation£3,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Training Link
£3,000 23/09/2021
IT classes for older people
National Lottery Community Fund - Using computers for older people
£8,870 29/07/2021
The funding will be used to run IT skills sessions for older people. The project aims to improve their access to online services provide social opportunities and help to identify where people require ....more
Camden Giving - Training Link
£2,915 08/06/2020
0
Not applicable
Camden Giving - Training Link Adult Literacy Project and Drop-in session
£8,582 21/05/2020
12
The project is to help learners improve their English reading, writing, spelling and grammar using volunteer tutors teaching 1-1 weekly for around an hour. This will also help extend our drop-in ....more
Woodward Charitable Trust - Adult literacy project for those who have English as a second language.
£500 01/04/2019
Towards an adult literacy project for those who have English as a second language.
Camden Giving - Training Link Adult Literacy project
£8,185 31/03/2019
24
The project focuses on helping learners improve their reading, writing, spelling & grammar with volunteer tutors during 1-1 sessions. Learners indicate areas to work on, the project provides ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Training Link
£5,443 29/11/2017
We want to run online courses to help people gain qualifications and support them in finding work.
Camden Giving - Confidence for employment 
£9,500 27/04/2017
11
The project supports unemployed residents or those in insecure employment to develop through one-to-one Adult Literacy sessions, Employability and ESOL classes.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Training Link
£5,750 15/03/2017
12
Training Link is requesting funding to carry out a community audit to map local service provision and current and emerging training needs to inform its service development and forward planning, ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Training Link
£34,500 25/09/2014
36
£34,500 over three years (£11,000; £11,500; £12,000) towards ESOL tutor fees, course accreditation and project running costs, up to Level 2 standard.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Training Link
£18,600 28/03/2013
Based in South Camden, Training Link provides basic skills and vocational courses. This programme will provide vocational courses with employment support to help unemployed people find work in the ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Training Link skills development courses
£245,777 08/12/2010
60
This project based in Kings Cross works with women and men on low incomes who lack language, confidence and basic skills needed for further community engagement and employment. It will engage with ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 68-96
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/12/1995, number: 1051662
  • Registered at Companies House on 21/12/1995, number: 03142188
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; all on time
Main office

54-56 PHOENIX ROAD
LONDON
NW1 1ES

Objectives

THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED TO RELIEVE POVERTY, ADVANCE EDUCATION AND ADVANCE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR BLACK AND ETHNIC MINORITY AND SOCIALLY EXCLUDED PEOPLE, BY FACILITATING ACCESS TO TRAINING TO ENHANCE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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